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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(b) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(c) He berates him verbally.
(d) He makes him clean out the stalls.

2. How does the relationship between Christmas and Miss Burden evolve?
(a) They become best friends.
(b) He becomes the manager of her farm.
(c) They become lovers.
(d) The friendship cools off after a year.

3. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Christmas
(b) Joe Kennedy
(c) Joe Miller
(d) Joe Louis

4. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The church elders
(b) The Ku Klux Klan
(c) A group of thugs
(d) The Mafia

5. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
(a) That he told Lena that Joe Brown is the Lucas Burch she seeks.
(b) That he told her that there is no one in town that fits the description of Lucas Burch.
(c) That he told her that she should go back home.
(d) That he told her that she is just looking for trouble by looking for Lucas Burch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?

2. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?

3. What does Christmas eat while on the run?

4. What does Bobbie call Christmas?

5. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?

(see the answer key)

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